Role Purpose

The Projects Lead & Industrial Engineer will be responsible for driving CAPEX projects, plant expansion, process improvement, capacity enhancement, and industrial engineering initiatives across the organizations chicken/food processing operations.

Based at the Corporate Office in Mumbai, the incumbent will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Food Safety, Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, and external vendors/consultants. The role requires a robust combination of project management, engineering design, data analysis, shop-floor problem solving, and hands-on execution.

The individual should be comfortable moving between corporate-level planning and detailed on-site execution, with extensive travel to manufacturing and processing locations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Management & CAPEX

1. Lead greenfield, brownfield, expansion, modernization, and productivity improvement projects across chicken/food processing facilities.
2. Develop project concepts, scope, layouts, technical specifications, budgets, timelines, and implementation plans.
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Prepare CAPEX proposals, project feasibility assessments, cost-benefit analyses, and management presentations.
4. Coordinate with internal stakeholders, OEMs, contractors, consultants, and vendors from project conceptualization through commissioning.
5. Monitor project cost, schedule, quality, safety, and technical performance.
6. Drive installation, commissioning, stabilization, and handover of new equipment and production lines.
7. Maintain project trackers and proactively highlight risks, delays, cost overruns, and mitigation plans.

2. Industrial Engineering & Productivity

1. Conduct detailed time and motion studies, manpower studies, line-balancing exercises, and capacity assessments.
2. Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improving throughput, labour productivity, equipment utilization, and process efficiency.
3. Develop optimal manpower deployment and production line configurat

📌 Assistant Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 Godrej Foods
📍 Mumbai